Brief communication: Plio-Pleistocene eagle predation on fossil cercopithecids from the Humpata Plateau, southern Angola

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 421-429

  Gilbert, Christopher C ^a   McGraw, W Scott ^b   Delson, Eric ^c,d,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Primate evolution; South Africa; Tai; Taung; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ANGOLA; ARTICLE; CERCOPITHECIDAE; EAGLE; FAUNA; FOSSIL ANIMAL; FOSSIL PRIMATE; NONHUMAN; PAPIO; PLEISTOCENE; PREDATION; SKELETON; SPECIES RARITY; TAPHONOMY; THEROPITHECUS;

ANGOLA; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECINAE; EAGLES; FOSSILS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SKULL;

EID: 67649598767     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21004     Document Type: Article

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